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Do You Remember Your Birthday? (今日は私の誕生日♪)

PUBLIC_FLAG_#{@journal.pf_int} RSS feed of Kyoko's latest journal entries Aug 14th 2010 14:42
Today, 14th August, is my birthday. I don’t like the date of my birthday because I don’t remember a special birthday party since I was a little kid. My friends went back to family home due to Obon and I could not meet my friends during the summer vacation. I always envied friends’ birthday party.

What I remember about my birthday party is that, when I went to grandma’s home, she picked up a hornets’ nest and gave me their larvae for nutrition. Damn! Who can eat? I thought it at that time. However, bring back that time, she’d cared about me. I cannot say my thanks to her because she is in heaven now. Sorry, grandma.

I’ll introduce my favorite song today, Birthday by Anri Kumaki.



Do you remember your birthday?
A smell of a candle, You inhaled in.
Let’s celebrate you,
and today and tomorrow for you.

誕生日のことは覚えていますか?
ろうそくのにおい 胸にためた
あなたのことをお祝いしましょう
あなたである今日と明日のために

Congratulations.
You’ve struggled along to arrive at today
You get one more memory.
Thank you.
You don’t need special reasons.
It is OK just the way you are.

おめでとう
今日まで辿りついたんだよ
思い出がまた一つ増えました
ありがとう
理由は何もないんだよ
Aug 14th 2010 14:56 citrus_punch

  • My friends went back to family home due to Obon and I could not meet my friends during the summer vacation.
  • My friends went back to their family homes due to Obon so I could not meet them during the summer vacation.
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  • I always envied friends’ birthday party.
  • I always envied my friends’ birthday parties.
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  • What I remember about my birthday party is that, when I went to grandma’s home, she picked up a hornets’ nest and gave me their larvae for nutrition.
  • What I remember about my birthday party is that, when I went to grandma’s house (a bit more natural) she picked up a hornets’ nest and gave me their larvae for nutrition.
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  • Who can eat?
  • Who can eat such a thing?
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  • I thought it at that time.
  • I thought it at that time. (That's what I thought at the time.)
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  • However, bring back that time, she’d cared about me.
  • However, thinking about that time, I know now that she’d cared about me.
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お誕生日おめでとう!
I never really had birthday parties either.. >.< But I don't mind because it was okay. ^_^ I hope you'll still have a good birthday. :)
Aug 14th 2010 15:04 Morgaloth

What a lovely song. Thanks for sharing it, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Aug 14th 2010 15:16 watchreader

My best friend has the same birthday as me. She always threw really big parties with all of our friends. Since she threw the parties, they were always HER birthday parties, but I really didn't mind, since I still got to see all my friends and eat cake. ^_^

Anyway, Happy birthday Kyoko!
Aug 14th 2010 15:17 Nate 鍾勰恒

  • Today, 14th August, is my birthday.
  • Today, August 14th, is my birthday. (We tend to write the month before the day in English)
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  • I don’t like the date of my birthday because I don’t remember a special birthday party since I was a little kid.
  • I don’t like the date of my birthday because I don’t remember ever having a special birthday party sincewhen I was a little kid.
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  • What I remember about my birthday party is that, when I went to grandma’s home, she picked up a hornets’ nest and gave me their larvae for nutrition.
  • What I remember about my birthday party is that, when I went to grandma’s home, she would picked up a hornets’ nest and gave me their larvae for nutrition.
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  • However, bring back that time, she’d cared about me.
  • However, bringthinking back about that time, I know now that she'd cared about me.
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Seriously, who can eat hornet's larvae? Although I'm kinda interested in trying it, haha. A very touching story, I enjoyed the read. Happy Birthday!
Aug 14th 2010 15:22 cmt

お誕生日おめでとう!
Aug 14th 2010 15:27 しーちゃん

お誕生日おめでとうございますーーーー!!
これからも楽しい毎日でありますよーーうに(●^o^●)
Aug 14th 2010 15:31 Cupid

お誕生日おめでとう!
Enjoy!
Aug 14th 2010 16:20

お誕生日おめでとうございます。

As for the date format, what you wrote is correct too and I prefer that format since I'm British.

-ntrt
Aug 14th 2010 16:29 大輔Dave

  • My friends went back to family home due to Obon and I could not meet my friends during the summer vacation.
  • My friends went back to family's homes due to for Obon and so I could not meet my friends them during the summer vacation. (Because you already said my friends, you do not need to say it twice and it can be replaced with the pronoun "them")
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I know how it feels to have a birthday during a holiday. =(
My birthday is close to Christmas so everyone is gone.
Aug 14th 2010 17:21 Niji

Happy Birthday, Kyokoさん! :)
Aug 14th 2010 18:48 Minoru

Happy Birthday!
僕は一週間前誕生日でした!
新しい環境でも頑張ってくださいね☆
Aug 14th 2010 19:19 no1knowsMe

Hi Kyoko! Happy 誕生日! (^o^)
Aug 14th 2010 20:35 ben べん

お誕生日おめでとうごさいます

この歌はすごいきれいです
Aug 14th 2010 20:55 Ron

  • My friends went back to family home due to Obon and I could not meet my friends during the summer vacation.
  • My friends went back to families home due to Obon so I could not meet my friends them during the summer vacation. You could also just say "families."
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Hornets' larvae? It seems like you were disgusted, but did you eat them? 面白い。

お誕生日おめでとうございます。
Aug 14th 2010 21:40

お誕生日おめでとう!
Aug 14th 2010 21:54 nova

Many happy returns!
Aug 14th 2010 22:30 Ollie

お誕生日おめでとう ^0^
Aug 14th 2010 23:14 MalachiConstant

Happy Birthday!
Aug 14th 2010 23:32 Mateo

Ha, ha, ha.
My birthday is in February. I always wish my birthday would be by this time of the year. Well, in fact, like Kyoko, my birthday is in summer. Yes, in a different month of the year, but the same season ^^. Well, is because I live in the South Hemisphere, he, he.
Because my birthday is in summer, when I was a child all my friends always was taking trips with their parents and almost no one came to my parties, was very boring. I never thought that someone that born in August could wish would be born near February!
Happy birthday, Kyoko!
Aug 15th 2010 00:39 Kyoko

citrus_punch, Morgaloth, watchreader, Nate, cmt, しーちゃん, a_few_lines, nottherealthing, DrXBonez Niji, Mino, no1knowsMe, ben, Ron, rippasama, nova, Ollie, MalachiConstant, and Mateo

Thank you for your kindness. I'm really happy to get your messages and have such kinds of good friends. ^^
I like this song. The song is played as background music every day when the TV news shows a newborn baby and his/her parents.
Their joyful looks make me very happy. ^^
Aug 15th 2010 02:12 lemoyne20

Happy Birthday! ^_^ I hope your birthday was good.
Aug 15th 2010 02:12 Quelsi ❀

I don't normally remember much about my past birthdays. I remember a few things, some of them bad, but not much at all.

And wow, larva????!!! gross!! XD

Anyways,
Happy Birthday!!
Aug 15th 2010 04:17 SIX

お誕生日おめでとうございます。
Aug 15th 2010 11:21 ジオヴァンニ / Giovanni

あなたの噺奇麗です! 誕生日おめでとう!
私の誕生日は8月19日です。同じ日に、 大学で行きますよ(悪い日ね) =(
Aug 15th 2010 11:34 kathrynoh

My sister's birthday is the day before Christmas day. She always complained because everyone was getting ready for Christmas so she never got a special day.
Aug 15th 2010 12:36 Yaz Pizazz

Happy Birthday Kyokoさん!

My Birthday is September 8th, which is normally the first week of school, as I got older I didn't really have birthday parties anymore, so I understand what you have gone through.

The song is so beautiful, I wish it was longer!

I hope you had an amazing birthday today, you definitely deserve it! :)
Aug 15th 2010 13:20 kumajeff

お誕生日おめでとうございます!
いい曲ですね。
Aug 15th 2010 17:14 Pandamilk

I haven't been on here in a while, so I saw this a bit late, either way...Happy belated birthday!!! I constantly forget my birthday. For the past two years or so I've spent my birthday at college studying and taking exams. If it wasn't for my family, I clearly would have forgotten my birthday had passed~
Aug 16th 2010 23:24 Franzi

Happy belated birthday! I was born the day before Valentine's Day. I'd hate that except that I was also born on a Friday, which makes it really funny. (Friday the 13th--like the movies.)

Those lyrics are pretty.
Kyoko
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